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Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman's Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front

Mary Jennings Hegar · New American Library
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE"Shoot Like a Girl is a must-read about an American patriot whose courage and determination will have a lasting impact on the future of our Armed Forces and the nation." - Senator John McCainOn June 29, 2009, Air National Guard major Mary Jennings...
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Humanitarians at War: The Red Cross in the Shadow of the Holocaust

Gerald Steinacher · Oxford University Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is one of the world's oldest, most prominent, and revered aid organizations. But at the end of World War II things could not have looked more different. Under fire for its failure to speak out against the Holocaust or to extend...
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Millennium: From Religion to Revolution: How Civilization Has Changed Over a Thousand Years

Ian Mortimer · Pegasus Books
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

History's greatest tour guide, Ian Mortimer, takes us on an eye-opening and expansive journey through the last millennium of human innovation. In Millennium, bestselling historian Ian Mortimer takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of the last ten centuries of Western history. It is a journey...
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Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror

Victor Sebestyen · Pantheon
Pages: 592
Format: Hardcover

A fascinating biography of the man who helped launch the Russian Revolution, which uses the personal - including Lenin's key relationships with the women in his life - to shed light on the political.Since the birth of Soviet Russia, Vladimir Lenin has been viewed as a controversial figure,...
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The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from Nazi Occupied France

Seth Meyerowitz · Berkley Caliber
Pages: 299
Format: Print book

For fans of Unbroken, the remarkable, untold story of World War II American Air Force turret-gunner Staff Sergeant Arthur Meyerowitz, who was shot down over Nazi-occupied France and evaded Gestapo pursuers for more than six months before escaping to freedom. Bronx-born top turret-gunner...
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The Castaway's War: One Man's Battle against Imperial Japan

Stephen Harding · Da Capo Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

In the early hours of July 5, 1943, the destroyer USS Strong was hit by a Japanese torpedo. The powerful weapon broke the destroyer's back, flooded her engine room, killed dozens of sailors, and sparked raging fires. While accompanying ships were able to rescue most of Strong's surviving...
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Rocky Boyer's War: An Unvarnished History of the Air Blitz that Won the War in the Southwest Pacific

Allen D. Boyer · Naval Institute Press
Pages: 440
Format: Hardcover

In Rocky Boyer's War, Allen Boyer offers a wry, keen-eyed, and occasionally disgruntled counterpoint history of the hard-fought, brilliant campaign that won World War II in the Southwest Pacific. Based in part on an unauthorized diary kept by the author's father, 1st Lt. Roscoe...
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The Taste of Empire: How Britain's Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World

Lizzie Collingham · Basic Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A history of the British Empire told through twenty meals eaten around the worldIn The Taste of Empire, acclaimed historian Lizzie Collingham tells the story of how the British Empire's quest for food shaped the modern world. Told through twenty meals over the course of 450 years, from...
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The Money Cult: Capitalism, Christianity, and the Unmaking of the American Dream

Chris Lehmann · Melville House
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

A grand, brilliantly written work of American historyWe think we know the story of American religion: the Puritans were cold, austere, and pious, and Christianity continued pure and uncorrupted until the industrial revolution got in the way. In The Money Cult, Chris Lehmann argues that...
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ISIS: A History

Fawaz A Gerges · Princeton University Pres
Pages: 296
Format: Print book

The Islamic State has stunned the world with its savagery, destructiveness, and military and recruiting successes. What explains the rise of ISIS and what does it portend for the future of the Middle East? In this book, one of the world's leading authorities on political Islam and jihadism...
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The Grandes Dames: The wonderfully uninhibited ladies who used their wealth & position to create American culture in their own images―from the Gilded Age to Modern Times

Stephen Birmingham · Lyons Press
Pages: 300
Format: Print book

Astor. Rockefeller. McCormick. Belmont. All family names that still adorn buildings, streets and charity foundations. While the men blazed across America with their oil, industry, and railways, the matriarchs founded art museums, opera houses, and symphony houses that functioned almost...
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Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story

Matti Friedman · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

"Destined to become a classic text on the absurdities of war. . . A beautifully written account of a young Israeli soldier's experience. A stunning achievement." - Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and New York Times bestselling author of The Good Spy It was one small...
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